{"id":72548,"date":"2026-04-23T20:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/trump-says-he-will-probably-put-a-big-tariff-on-the-uk-if-it-doesnt-drop-digital-services-tax\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:59:57","slug":"trump-says-he-will-probably-put-a-big-tariff-on-the-uk-if-it-doesnt-drop-digital-services-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/trump-says-he-will-probably-put-a-big-tariff-on-the-uk-if-it-doesnt-drop-digital-services-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he will \u2018probably put a big tariff on the UK\u2019 if it doesn\u2019t drop digital services tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president accuses UK of thinking it can \u2018make an easy buck\u2019 from US tech companies, weeks after warning that UK\u2013US trade deal can be changed<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on the UK if it does not drop its digital services tax on US social media firms.<\/p>\n<p>The digital services tax, introduced in 2020, imposes a 2% levy on the revenues of several major US tech companies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/24\/trump-tariff-uk-digital-services-tax-warning\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president accuses UK of thinking it can \u2018make an easy buck\u2019 from US tech companies, weeks after warning that UK\u2013US trade deal can be changed Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on the UK if it does not drop its digital services tax on US social media firms. The digital services tax, introduced &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says he will \u2018probably put a big tariff on the UK\u2019 if it doesn\u2019t drop digital services tax\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/trump-says-he-will-probably-put-a-big-tariff-on-the-uk-if-it-doesnt-drop-digital-services-tax\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says he will \u2018probably put a big tariff on the UK\u2019 if it doesn\u2019t drop digital services tax\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}